FCC official: Agency lacks resources to stop E-Rate fraud

9:22 PM,
Feb. 23, 2013

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Almost from the start, the federal E-Rate program has been described as rife with fraud.

At a congressional hearing in 2004, Federal Communications Commission Inspector General H. Walker Feaster, who was in charge of preventing E-Rate malfeasance, said he did not have the resources to "provide assurance that the program is protected from fraud, waste and abuse."

Former Rep. James C. Greenwood of Pennsylvania, who chaired the hearing, said that E-Rate's structure invited scams. ...